GG everyone and good guessing team - I backed myself into a corner early and you mentioned all but 1 word(deck) which I wasn't able to give a good direct clue for
animal - 6 was immediately greedy and I paid for it the entire game as we wasted a good bit of time coming back to it. I wanted Bear, Cat, Dog, Shark, Vet, and Doctor which was stretchy but things seemed safe. I figured you'd say
Unicorn and was fine with it, hoped you would just move past
Bug but OK if not and completely overlooked
Ray.
We got 4 which was good and didn't need anything on the list besides Vet so I went
hike - 6 in hopes of blowing the list up and getting new words on there to maneuver with. I wanted Back, Boot, Cliff, Field, Soldier, Temple, and Torch from this but in retrospect it's a pretty rough clue. Perhaps because I was clueing the other game or just always like the word but completely overlooked
Day, I thought
Bridge was possible but hoped it would be further down(kinda played out this way but was actually a giant wrench in the plan as you'll see), and then completely missed
Olympus too. I didn't realize it was an actual thing and was wondering why it was even mentioned, I just always thought it was some make believe thing where the Gods lived so you couldn't actually hike it but apparently it exists! Not the worst since it's neutral but I was racking up a lot of words that weren't ours.
At this point we were winning and both teams had rough lists so my goal was to clean up and then look to clue the remaining words. What I was hoping for with
pharmacy - 3 was that you would guess
Doctor,
Shop then jump ahead to
Vet, before going
Back and passing with
Bug. Ideally you would consider doctor could have been for animal and moved any candidates to the bottom/assume you were done and we would start 4th turn cleanly ahead. Unfortunately it had the opposite effect and expanded the original goose chase I sent you on, with
Scale and
Paper being added to the list.
items - 0 almost worked out extremely well! You cleared the exact words I was hoping for off the list and got the 2 right ones, unfortunately the new list had a bunch of theirs/neutrals amongst ours and
Ray was guessed, properly punishing me for the initial aggressive clue number.
Even though
fork - 6 didn't get a lot of words that turn for
Blue, I thought they would likely close given 2 more turns(and were quite close in their actual 1!) - the other issue I had was how we were going to win with our top makeup being theirs,
Temple and
Torch not really on the radar in addition to
England and
Deck completely unclued. I was debating something like
Poseidon - 0 but even clearing the good 3 words on our list would leave me in a tough spot with the remaining 4 - may have been a decent try though especially if a new list had something. Deciding I needed to be proactive in getting our words, I settled on
tiki - 2 to give us a path to victory. Perhaps there's too much Aztec equity but I thought/hoped Temple would be guessed first and the risk was needed. My other hope was for Bridge to get moved down since I didn't clue this for 3 - even though a Tiki bamboo bridge isn't a super thing just to give some potential reasons to move it down on the list, after which we'd guess
Field,
Olympus and be able to clean up
Soldier +
Cliff with an easy unlimited clue.
Bridge was still haunting me from the aggressive hike clue as we had 4 correct words scattered throughout.
Blue would have won if they had
Parachute instead of
Trunk so this was our last turn. I do think it's weird how in this spot clue - 4, clue - 5, and clue - unlimited are almost functionally the same(list words 2 and 3) and doesn't help you at all if the top word is wrong. I was thinking about smaller clues to give us a better frame of reference but didn't think
Bridge would be dodged even with their
hanging clue. Still feel strongly on changing this theoretically but OK - had to do a 6 clue and wanted to try to capture the spirit of everything. Went with the
Dover hail mary of you getting
Temple from before, with added equity to
Cliff,
Soldier, obvious guess of
England, and last hope of you finding
Deck somehow through some castle deck/ship deck/port wavelength thing. We didn't end up too far but my previous sloppiness gave us too many words in the way.
Born could have given a 1 or unlimited clue for parachute(obligatory theory reasoning to not autoguess top word for numbers since it so often accomplishes the same thing) but went all fancy to end it on us with a 0 clue
last time I spied vs Born we got gonged - 6 so I didn't want that to happen again but may have overcompensated with the aggression. GG everyone, fun game!
Last edited by AmazingErvin; 04-27-2021 at 03:48 AM.